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Let's talk about how "Eastcoast Bias" was never real

Big_Ev said:
Growing up in Jersey doing that era, it was an East Coast bias. Not many different regions we’re getting played on Hot 97. It was really rare. New York underground was getting played at the beginning but that faded too (that is another story in itself). Unless you were getting played on a college station or Stretch and Bobitio and you were from somewhere else. 8 times out of 10, you were not getting played.
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Ironically the same thing could be said in the South. Take a group like Little Brother here in NC. They got zero airplay in 99% of the state except for Raleigh/Durham mix shows and college stations. If I walk an ask the average cat from NC have they heard a LB song they wouldn't even know who I'm talking about.

They were considered back pack rappers aka NY rappers and they got zero play. But a Luda, TI, Pick a Westcoast artist got all the airplay throughout the state
 
Old Man Cain said:
Ironically the same thing could be said in the South. Take a group like Little Brother here in NC. They got zero airplay in 99% of the state except for Raleigh/Durham mix shows and college stations. If I walk an ask the average cat from NC have they heard a LB song they wouldn't even know who I'm talking about.

They were considered back pack rappers aka NY rappers and they got zero play. But a Luda, TI, Pick a Westcoast artist got all the airplay throughout the state
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I noticed that when used to visit NC before I moved to Raleigh. Little Brother sounded like they were from up north so not many people down there either didn’t know about them or gave them the time of day. Jersey artists had that same issue in the beginning too.
 
Yes, east coast bias was a thing. That region even admitted it lol

“Back when New York niggas was calling southern rappers lame and then jacking our slang”
 
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Dwayne said:
Yes, east coast bias was a thing. That region even admitted it lol

“Back when New York niggas was calling southern rappers lame and then jacking our slang”
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Would you say it's a Southern bias now? Especially since NY sound is basically southern nowadays
 
Revolver Ocelot said:
For all the people that say ther was an eastcoast bias, If or when did it end?

@The Lonious Monk keep saying artist & DJ's said there was a bias where was it at? Cuz there was numerous collabs between NY artist and artist from the South, Midwest, and Westcoast from the mid to late 90's.

Maybe those ones that said there was a bias wasn't fukn wit artist from other place. But plenty of artist and people was.
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Jadakiss "Fuck is yall getting mad at the south for/Learn to switch your shut up southpaw"...Jada doesn't spit that line if there's no shit between southern rappers and east coast artists/fans.
 
BlackRain said:
Jadakiss "Fuck is yall getting mad at the south for/Learn to switch your shut up southpaw"...Jada doesn't spit that line if there's no shit between southern rappers and east coast artists/fans.
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Though that was Fat Joe
 
Old Man Cain said:
Not at all. Take Jay Z and UGK for instance. Jay wanted UGK on the Big Pimpin song because he listened to them in his travels. Bun B was down for it because he listened to NY artists BUT Pimp hated all NY rap and he didn't want to have anything to do with the record.

Bun even said it forever to get Pimp on the record. After getting on the record it opened up UGK to the masses and their biggest commercial success ever.

With that said the biased person was the Southern cat not NY cat.
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that's not true

Pimp hated the beat, thought it was too pop & would alienate their true fanbase (the ones who bought "Ridin Dirty")


listen to "Quit Hatin The South"

Bun talks about at one point in time if you listened to rap it was nothin but east coast/NY so he bought those records cuz that's all there was

then when other regions started to get sum shine it wasn't "real hip-hop"
 
Revolver Ocelot said:
:hahaha:

Bruh , this don't make the point you wanted.
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It actually does because the line came in the midst of NY rappers and fans loathing the fact that NY was no longer being seen as the centerpiece of where you had to go or get approval from in order to be seen as a serious lyricist/rapper.
 
BRIAN B. said:
that's not true

Pimp hated the beat, thought it was too pop & would alienate their true fanbase (the ones who bought "Ridin Dirty")


listen to "Quit Hatin The South"

Bun talks about at one point in time if you listened to rap it was nothin but east coast/NY so he bought those records cuz that's all there was

then when other regions started to get sum shine it wasn't "real hip-hop"
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Pimp also didn't want to do the song cuz he was a Pac stan and somehow felt Pac's beef was his.

Which was also dumb AF.
 
BlackRain said:
It actually does because the line came in the midst of NY rappers and fans loathing the fact that NY was no longer being seen as the centerpiece of where you had to go or get approval from in order to be seen as a serious lyricist/rapper.
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So there wasn't an eastcoast bias!

Like I said didn't make the point you were trying to.
 
BRIAN B. said:
that's not true

Pimp hated the beat, thought it was too pop & would alienate their true fanbase (the ones who bought "Ridin Dirty")


listen to "Quit Hatin The South"

Bun talks about at one point in time if you listened to rap it was nothin but east coast/NY so he bought those records cuz that's all there was

then when other regions started to get sum shine it wasn't "real hip-hop"
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You're right

There was conflicting stories about this song and I just watched Bun's latest interview with B High were he clears it up.

Jay asked for them to do the songs a year or so before it came out Pimp said come to the South and Jay said he's not leaving NY because of the west east beef. Pimp said he's not leaving the South/GA so things fell apart.

The following year they did the song Pimp said he was only going to give the song 8 bars
 
More like New York nepotism. Like seriously, why focus on other regions when we got people we Are cool with who are popular musically? I get the bias line, but eh.
 
Big_Ev said:
I noticed that when used to visit NC before I moved to Raleigh. Little Brother sounded like they were from up north so not many people down there either didn’t know about them or gave them the time of day. Jersey artists had that same issue in the beginning too.
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Jersey did sound like new york tho minus the lingo.
It's wayy closer to from Harlem to Jersey city than Harlem to Staten Island
 
Busta Carmichael said:
Jersey did sound like new york tho minus the lingo.
It's wayy closer to from Harlem to Jersey city than Harlem to Staten Island
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That's true. I lived in Harlem for about a year.

People in New Jersey are more likely to have a car and drive into the city. A poor person in Staten Island that doesn't have a car is kinda stranded in the middle of no man's land.

Also, people in New Jersey get New York radio stations.

I think it would probably be easier to make it out of New Jersey than Staten Island. Staten Island has a stigma that nothing is going on in Staten Island.
 
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